If so, you have better eyesight than I do.
Posted on 04/14/2011 6:10:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk
As many as want to be assured of Tea Party support in 2012.
The House leadership has endangered many of the freshmen by overselling a bad deal, turning what could have been just a loss into a test of every member's commitments to their base. In the first major vote of the new Congress, not only is there nothing of significance to point to as a "win," there was a significant amount of disinformation, bad enough in itself, but worse when one considers what it says about the sophistication of the messaging efforts of the leadership's consultants.
"Trust leaves on horseback and returns on foot" is one of the many quotes in Donald Rumsfeld's memoir, and apparently no one in the leadership media team read it. Did they really think no one would notice? Or remember?
The Whip count is interesting, but like the vote on TARP, this one is going to be remembered. If many more Republicans begin to break and speak bluntly, Thursday could be a very bad day for the Speaker and, much worse, for the country as the "adult party" separates from the political movement that elected it. The Speaker has been very badly served by his communications team which from the start of the Congress has seemed almost intent on digging a deep trench between the Speaker and the conservative base and Tea Party volunteers.
What were they thinking?
Now the Speaker is attempting to persuade the public that he is really serious on the debt limit. He may have an easier time persuading the MSM than he will his party's core supporters.
Time to email and phone
I'm telling you it's EVERYWHERE. I won't ping you anymore. You get the point.
Just sent an email to my rep:
Rep. Garrett:
I presume you will vote against the ridiculous compromise budget bill—the one that doesn’t cut anything like what was claimed? Please stand up for taxpayers and against Beltway hacks and vote against this turkey. The Tea Party is watching. Thanks.
Good job. The “leadership” and Tea Party frosh need to hear from everyone, as well.
Garrett’s a good egg. I email him “atta boys” from time to time, and I let him hear voter anger when it’s called for. I think he’ll vote against it. I actually think sending mail HELPS guys like him justify voting against.
Taxation is robbert; Gubmint is force...
Hewitt did a 180 on his show last night and is now openly calling for the GOP to reject the deal. He was audibly livid over that Obama speech yesterday.
I emailed my representative last night. The budget stuff is hitting the fan. This has to stop.
I called Boners office in DC and left a message to grow some cajones and that he got rolled by the Bam. It was a clean but terse tone of the message for emphasis of dissatisfaction with RINO’s caving in again.
If so, you have better eyesight than I do.
If anyone actually believes that the GOP will hold strong THIS TIME (after 400 disappointments in a row), then I have some lovely beachfront property in Nebraska for ya. Cheap!
Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind.
Tea, anyone?
Emailed my representative this morning - Steve Palazzo - freshman Republican. Will be interesting to see what he does - defeated Gene Taylor.
Argh. I don’t know what to say/write. I am flabbergasted. This is not the Boehner mistake that other posters are claiming, IMO. It is orders of magnitude worse. I write that as someone who supported Boehner just a day or two ago.
I do not agree with those who claim that this is merely the 400th time in a row that the Republicans have caved. I think you are mistaken. This time was supposed to be different. This time HAD to be different. This time the Republicans controlled the House, had a renewed vigor and electoral mandate, etc. This time there would be no budget gimmicks, because the stakes are too high.
Some important conservatives put their intellectual weight behind this deal, once it was struck. And now it turns out that it, too, was smoke and mirrors. Add that to Boehner’s transgression; and then multiply by the Obama factor — that once the ink was barely dry he launches the BS that he did yesterday.
I like National Review’s headline vis-a-vis Boehner: STRIKE ONE, except that I might put STRIKE TWO considering how much he screwed up. His credibility is flat out shot. He’s not out yet, but he is in big trouble.
I remain convinced that the Democrats and RINOs will be virtually extinct after Nov 2012. Seriously, I think they will be hammered worse than anyone presently realizes. I look at the numbers, including for example today’s employment numbers, and I think that anyone not affiliated with the Tea Party is just TOAST.
Meanwhile, Obama has moved even farther to the left and he’s dug himself in even further, neither of which I would have thought was possible.
We are too far away from Nov 2012 to wait this out. It would be mid 2013 before any changes could take effect, and a year or two or three thereafter to unwind the bulk of the nonsense that Obama has established. I just don’t think our country can last that long.
I really do think that the Republicans that we have in Congress are good people and that they have our interests at heart. They just do not see a way to overcome the Democrats, who control too much of the power. And so they get what they can and move to the next step. They cave. But we can not wait.
I think Boehner needs to deliver the goods, and soon. I don’t mind if we get this step behind us. It is a distraction. But as a party we need to rally behind the Paul Ryan plan and insist that we immediately move aggressively in that direction.
I used to be a proofreader, so I notice word-smithing too!
Used to make me nuts after proofing for 2 days-even advertisers start using “the word”-and of course politics is THE biggest on-going advertisement around these days.
Dont mind the pings either...I thought it was just me noticing that kind of stuff because of the work I used to do; nice to know my mind is still intact.
The Mrs
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